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Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c25.25

Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c25.25

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c25.25

I have lately observed that the natives make immense quantities and at a very low rate a good fossile alkali by burning seaweeds. This appears to me also a valuable salt. I shall send you specimens of it. I think it would not cost here above 2-10 £ or 3 £ a ton.